Read the following passage: she thought of delicious dishes served on marvellous plates and of the whispered gallantries to which you listen with a sphinxlike smile while you are eating using context clues, what might be the best definition of "gallantries"? a christian community polite attention or respect give by men to women not sensible; excessive a feeling of intense pleasure or joy

the correct answer would be polite attention or respect given by men or women.

Explanation: the scene is set in a delicate manner so the only reasonable answer would be polite attention/respect.

id say it means hes fearful and/or cautious

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faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.